List of the best Victor Hanbury movies: Don Giovanni(1979), King and Country(1964), Time Without Pity(1957), The Sleeping Tiger(1954), X the Unknown(1956), Steaming(1985), Roads to the South(1978), Eva(1962), The Assassination of Trotsky(1972), Boom!(1968), These Are the Damned(1962), The Big Night(1951) ... ...
Musical
France|Italy|West Germany
1979
184 Minutes
Director
Ruggero Raimondi Kiri Te Kanawa José van Dam John Macurdy Edda Moser Teresa Berganza Malcolm King Éric Adjani
don juan noblewoman valet fiancé womanizer ex-lover brooding hedonistic witty rousing seville, spain castle seduction jealousy affair murder promiscuity revenge pursuit wretched excess
Mozart's opera in lush sets: Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, kills Donna Anna's father. He is then chased by Donna Anna's fiancé, Don Ottavio, as well as Donna Elvira, one of his former conquests. But the real threat lies elsewhere.
War
UK
1964
86 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde Tom Courtenay Leo McKern Barry Foster Peter Copley James Villiers Jeremy Spenser Barry Justice
private captain military officer lawyer gritty bleak england battlefield courtroom horrors of war world war i desertion trial military trauma fall underdog 1910s
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The officer assigned to defend him at his court-martial, Captain Hargreaves, finds out there is more to the case than meets the eye.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1957
88 Minutes
Director
father convict girlfriend wealthy man wife son suspenseful dark melodramatic london england countryside prison mansion courtroom murder investigation wrongfully accused father/son relationship vigilantism cover-up
The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.
Drama
UK|USA
1954
89 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde Alexis Smith Alexander Knox Hugh Griffith Patricia McCarron Billie Whitelaw Maxine Audley Glyn Houston Harry Towb Russell Waters Fred Griffiths
criminal psychiatrist wife maid melodramatic tense london household psychoanalysis adultery crime bad behavior reform deception discovery forbidden love 1950s
After a convict breaks in a psychotherapist's home, he agrees to rehabilitation rather than arrest but the therapist's wife becomes infatuated with him.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1956
80 Minutes
Director
Dean Jagger Leslie Norman Leo McKern Edward Chapman Marianne Brauns William Lucas John Harvey Peter Hammond Michael Ripper Anthony Newley Ian McNaughton
A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
Drama
UK
1985
95 Minutes
Director
Vanessa Redgrave Sarah Miles Diana Dors Patti Love Brenda Bruce Felicity Dean Sally Sagoe Anna Tzelniker
abused woman friend woman customer amusing calm gripping gutsy quirky spirited bathhouse friendship curiosity trials abuse wretched excess quest escape metamorphosis rescue
Three female frequenters of a steam room decide to fight its closure.
Drama
France|Spain
1978
97 Minutes
Director
Yves Montand Miou-Miou Laurent Malet France Lambiotte José Luis Gómez Jean Bouise Maurice Bénichou
The story of an exiled Spanish revolutionary, now a successful screenwriter, dangerously drawn back to his homeland and the "good fight" for freedom from fascism.
Drama
1962
100 Minutes
Director
Jeanne Moreau Stanley Baker Virna Lisi James Villiers Riccardo Garrone Nona Medici Lisa Gastoni
femme fatale welshman writer fiancée beautiful woman lover dark emotional sultry venice, italy rome city apartment house self-destruction infidelity obsession marriage unrequited love love triangle
Drama, History
1972
103 Minutes
Director
Richard Burton Alain Delon Romy Schneider Valentina Cortesa Enrico Maria Salerno Luigi Vannucchi Jean Desailly Simone Valere Duilio Del Prete Peter Chatel
A Stalinist assassin (Alain Delon) tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) to Mexico in 1940.
Drama
1968
113 Minutes
Director
wealthy woman poet friend servant nurse emotional tense island mansion terminal illness death wealth denial class distinctions poetry fall wretched excess 1960s
A dying millionaire sings her swan song to the Angel of Death who comes to her island hideaway as a down-and-out poet.
Sci-Fi
1962
96 Minutes
Director
Macdonald Carey Shirley Anne Field Viveca Lindfors Alexander Knox Oliver Reed Walter Gotell James Villiers Kenneth Cope Brian Oulton Barbara Everest James Maxwell
american man child scientist prisoner captor young woman bleak brooding dark disturbing gripping cave england coast military base experiments exploitation imprisonment radiation escape
An American man (Macdonald Carey) and an Englishwoman (Shirley Anne Field) discover genetically engineered children who can survive a nuclear war.
Drama
1951
75 Minutes
Director
A 17-year-old (John Barrymore Jr.) grabs a pistol and goes looking for the sportswriter who caned his father (Preston Foster).
Action
1970
110 Minutes
Director
Two British prisoners (Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell) are chased by a helicopter over rough terrain and up snowy mountains.
Comedy
1966
119 Minutes
Director
Monica Vitti Terence Stamp Dirk Bogarde Harry Andrews Michael Craig Clive Revill Alexander Knox Rossella Falk Scilla Gabel Michael Chow Joe Melia
secret agent partner crime boss thief government official criminal campy playful thrilling sultry england island ship amsterdam hideout espionage heist undercover operations set-up suicide mission
An archcriminal (Dirk Bogarde) wants diamonds being guarded by a British secret agent (Monica Vitti) and her partner (Terence Stamp).
Drama
1963
117 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde James Fox Sarah Miles Wendy Craig Catherine Lacey Patrick Magee
servant aristocrat lover maid intricate suspenseful uneasy thrilling london apartment pub betrayal affair class conflict power struggle forbidden love metamorphosis mystery rivalry revenge
A crafty and obnoxious manservant uses his mistress and his wits to gain supremacy over his wealthy employer.
Crime, Drama
1960
97 Minutes
Director
Stanley Baker Sam Wanamaker Margit Saad Gregoire Aslan Jill Bennett Laurence Naismith Edward Judd Patrick Magee
criminal mastermind gang member traitor ex-convict girlfriend bleak engaging gripping intense suspenseful prison crime scene city robbery imprisonment torture kidnapping blackmail money
The mastermind (Stanley Baker) of a racetrack robbery escapes from prison to the loot and is double-crossed by his gang.
Mystery & Thriller
1976
122 Minutes
Director
Alain Delon Jeanne Moreau Michael Lonsdale Suzanne Flon Juliet Berto Jean Bouise Francine Bergé Massimo Girotti
doppelganger catholic art dealer resistance fighter jew mistress suspenseful frightening occupied france big city auschwitz paris misunderstanding greed fascism investigation switched identities persecution 1940s
In Nazi-occupied France, an art dealer who profits at the expense of cash-needy Jews finds that the tables are turned.
Comedy, Drama
1975
117 Minutes
Director
Glenda Jackson Michael Caine Helmut Berger Marcus Richardson Kate Nelligan Reinhard Kolldehoff Michael Lonsdale Béatrice Romand Anna Steele Nathalie Delon Bill Wallis
writer wife drug dealer intricate witty creative playful england germany house elevator adultery writer's block writing imagination love marriage pursuit forbidden love rivalry
A British writer's (Michael Caine) fiction reflects his wife (Glenda Jackson) and her shady lover (Helmut Berger).
Drama
1953
82 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Luisa Rossi Vittorio Manunta
A man (Paul Muni) on the run for an accidental murder teams up with a boy (Vittorio Manunta) on the run for stealing milk.
Drama
1971
116 Minutes
Director
Julie Christie Alan Bates Dominic Guard Margaret Leighton Michael Redgrave Michael Gough Edward Fox Richard Gibson Roger Lloyd-Pack
teenager pretty woman farmer viscount emotional melodramatic passionate england estate farm countryside forbidden love love triangle infatuation social standing forbidden love growing up discovery 1900s
A circa-1900 British boy (Dominic Guard) carries illicit love letters between a farmer (Alan Bates) and an aristocratic woman (Julie Christie).
Mystery & Thriller
1944
79 Minutes
James Mason Victor Hanbury Lucie Mannheim Herbert Lom Raymond Lovell Julien Mitchell Clare Hamilton Martin Miller Frederick Valk Ivor Barnard
medical student intelligence officer hotel owner publisher fisherman newlywed frenetic suspenseful french riviera hotel shop espionage mistaken identity citizenship world war ii mystery pursuit 1940s
An Austrian medical student (James Mason) is mistaken for a Nazi spy at a hotel on the prewar Riviera.
Mystery & Thriller
1959
95 Minutes
Director
Hardy Kruger Stanley Baker Micheline Presle Robert Flemyng Gordon Jackson John Van Eyssen Jack MacGowran George Roubicek Redmond Phillips
painter art teacher lover frenchwoman inspector wrongly accused tense suspenseful engaging gripping intense melodramatic england wrongfully accused deception suspicion new love frame-up infidelity discovery
An artist (Hardy Kruger) accused of murdering his lover finds she was the mistress of a high-ranking diplomat.
Drama
1968
109 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Mia Farrow Robert Mitchum Peggy Ashcroft Pamela Brown Michael Strong Robert Douglas
prostitute stepfather niece aunt disturbing gritty raw intense mansion london death of a child family dysfunction insanity suicide incest transformation forbidden love temptation 1960s
A girl (Mia Farrow) looks like a London hooker's (Elizabeth Taylor) late daughter, while the hooker looks like the girl's late mother.
Drama
1967
105 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde Stanley Baker Jacqueline Sassard Delphine Seyrig Alexander Knox Michael York Vivien Merchant Harold Pinter Freddie Jones
professor student fiancée beautiful woman somber emotional england oxford university road academia romance jealousy car accident midlife crisis infidelity temptation fall 1960s
A married Oxford don (Dirk Bogarde) lusts for a student (Jacqueline Sassard) amid academic high jinks and tragedy.